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<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Introduction to Terrier</h2></td>
<tr><td width="240px"><a href="overview.html">Overview</a></td>
	<td>An overview of what the Terrier platform is, and what it can be used for.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="whats_new.html">What's New</a></td>
    <td>What has changed in the Terrier platform in the recent releases.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Getting Started with Terrier</h2></td>
<tr><td><a href="quickstart.html">Installing and Running Terrier</a></td>
    <td>Contains information about how to download, install and start running Terrier, and an overview of the applications provided with Terrier.</td>
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    <td>Contains a guide about how to experimentation using, like TREC runs, using Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="basicComponents.html">Terrier Components</a></td>
    <td>An overview of the main components of Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Using Terrier</h2></td>
<tr><td><a href="configure_general.html">Configuring Terrier</a></td>
<td>A brief introduction to the configuration of Terrier</td></tr>

<tr><td><a href="configure_indexing.html">Configuring Indexing</a></td>
    <td>A guide of indexing, and how it can be configured to your needs.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="configure_retrieval.html">Configuring Retrieval</a></td>
    <td>A guide of the retrieval functionalities, covering frequently-used retrieval methodologies, such as TF-IDF, Okapi's BM25, language models (Hiemstra and Ponte &amp; Croft) and weighting models from the probabilistic Divergence From Randomness (DFR), as well as query expansion (pseudo-relevance feedback).</td>
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<tr><td><a href="querylanguage.html">Terrier's Query Language</a></td>
    <td>A description of the query language that Terrier supports.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="evaluation.html">Evaluation of Experiments</a></td>
    <td>Shows how the results of experiments can be evaluated using the in-built evaluation package in Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="terrier_desktop.html">Desktop Search</a></td>
    <td>A guide to the included Desktop Search application of Terrier.</td>
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    <td>Frequently Asked Questions about Terrier</td>
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<tr><td><a href="trec_examples.html">TREC Experiment Examples</a></td>
    <td>An example of how to create an index and produce a TREC run on the WT2G and Blogs06 collections.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="hadoop_configuration.html">Terrier/Hadoop Configuration</a></td>
	<td>A guide to how to configure Terrier to use a Hadoop cluster</td>
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<tr><td><a href="hadoop_indexing.html">Hadoop Map Reduce Indexing with Terrier</a></td>
    <td>A guide to using the Hadoop Map Reduce indexer in Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="properties.html">List of all properties in Terrier</a></td>
    <td>Extensive list of properties that Terrier supports and what they configure.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Extending Terrier &amp; Other Advanced Topics</h2></td>
<tr><td><a href="terrier_develop.html">Developing with Terrier</a></td>
	<td>Introduction to developing applications using Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="extend_indexing.html">Extending Indexing</a></td>
    <td>In depth guide about indexing, and the roles of each class in the indexing process.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="extend_retrieval.html">Extending Retrieval</a></td>
    <td>In depth guide about retrieval, and how various retrieval functionalities can be integrated into Terrier.
	Moreover, how you can use Terrier to obtain various statistics about the terms and the collection.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="languages.html">Non English language support</a></td>
    <td>Description of support in Terrier for indexing and retrieving from documents written in languages other than
	English.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="dfr_description.html">Description of DFR</a></td>
    <td>Description of the Divergence From Randomness framework that Terrier implements.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="javadoc/index.html">Terrier API Javadoc</a></td>
    <td>API documentation of each class in Terrier.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="todo.html">Future Features &amp; Known Issues</a></td>
    <td>Upcoming features in future releases.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>Other Information</h2></td>
<tr><td><a href="http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier/forum/">Terrier Forum</a></td>
    <td>The Terrier discussion forum is for developers and users of the Terrier
	platform to discuss the software. Ask questions, post patches and share tips.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/wiki/Terrier/FAQ">Terrier FAQ</a></td>
    <td>The Terrier FAQ, hosted on the Terrier Wiki.</td>
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<tr><td><a href="bibliography.html">Bibliography</a></td>
    <td>If you use Terrier in your research, please cite us!</td>
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<tr><td><a href="contacts.html">Contacts</a></td>
    <td>Terrier Contacts</td>
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